Ancient Maya Painted Ceramics – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/ancient-maya-painted-ceramic
Ceramic vessels nourished in both life and death: they held food and drink for daily life, but also offerings in dedicatory caches and burials, which range from the simplest graves to the richest royal tombs.
featuring creatures such as a water bird catching a fish in its mouth ( 1984.614a,b)
